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Art Tutorial I: Getting Past Scaring Yourself While Painting

2/4/2012

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I get to a scary stage with my paintings in progress. Sometimes this causes the stall factor. You procrastinate because you're afraid that if you touch what you've created so far, you'll ruin it.
Maybe it comes with fascination over what you achieve if you've surprised yourself by how well things are coming along. Whatever the reason, if you want to get things done, you need to find a way to overcome this. 
One solution to this that I find is very helpful is to use Photoshop, aka PS.
Once I have a photo of the painting at whatever stage it's at, I can add and
remove elements easily in PS using layers. That way, I try them out but they're not a permanent part of them and they can easily be left omitted.
My paintings are usually too large to scan into my computer before working on them in PS. I just take a digital photo of them and fix up the dimensions and color levels in PS.
After I decide what I like and want to keep, I go back to the painting and paint it in. I may do this several times before I decided that the painting is
finished.
Here's my first pencil sketch of my most current work in progress:
Pencil sketch
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Picture
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Here's how it looked after I added a few colors to try them out.  I didn't add these colors in Photoshop.  I added them directly to the painting.  I was feeling pretty focused and didn't think I needed to try out anything in PS before making it permanent.
After I did this much, I used PS to see how the dragon fairy at left of center dragon would look in a blue green blouse instead of the red color I gave her with colored pencil in my prelim sketch.  Unfortunately, I didn't want to keep it, didn't save it and don't have it to show you.  But now you get the idea.  The picture has progressed further since I took these 2 pics.  More may follow as soon as I get pictures to show you.

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